Mr. Chairman. my amendment would add $4.9 million to restore 160 positions to the Border Patrol which the administration wants to de lete. I think the committee has done ai excellent job with this bill. They brough us a more balanced bill. and this $4.9 mil lion is modest indeed when we are con. sidering a bill of $8.5 billion. Now. the need is critical.- Last year. ir conference on this very bill. we were abl( to add $14.5 million for some 300 or morn positions. but the President would nol spend the money even after he had publicly proclaimed that the need was for e thousand positions. I would point out that the authorizee level for fiscal year 1980. the year il which we are in. for Border Patrol is 2.348 positions. Presently on board are 2.120. so we are already 228 short. Now. the facts are that we have no coherent. rational. understandable immigration policy. In this particular amendment. 3 am not talking about the boat people. I am not talking about the Cubans.
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